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CALENDAR 23-27.06.14 NAIDOC WEEK
24.06.14 2.10pm NAIDOC Week Assembly
25.06.14 12noon-3pm BLACK, YELLOW and
RED Games Afternoon
27.06.14 Year 3-6 Athletics Carnival–
Track Events at AHS
27.06.14 Last Day of Term 2
14.07.14 Teachers and Staff return to
school for Term 3
15.07.14 Students return to school for
Term 3
Family Relationship Centre
Exchange Students Families needed
Stamps
Tuition
After School Care
NERAM-Art Classes and Holiday Classes
Bridge
Hockey
Scouts
Vacation Care
Holiday Kids Clubs
Lake Keepit Holiday Camps
If you would like more information on these events
please call into our office and check out our Community
Noticeboard.
Stage 3
Newcastle Excursion Instalment 2
$60
Due this
Friday 20 June 2014
Come along to celebrate NAIDOC Week with Armidale City Public School.
Monday 23 June: Flag raising Ceremony 9:30.
Tuesday 24 June: K-6 Assembly with guest speakers.
Wednesday 25 June: The day will be as follows:
11:10am -11:50am NAIDOC Week Morning Tea. Students, staff and parents are invited to morning tea to be shared in the Primary
playground. Students are asked to bring along a plate of food to share with their Stage. Please see details below:-
Children are to provide a small plate of food to share. Please no food that needs to be heated. It would help us
enormously if the food was already cut up.
Your child has indicated that he/she would like to provide the following:-
Fruit (eg fruit kebabs, watermelon, platter etc)
Sandwiches
Chips, biscuits or dip
Sweets
Please, no nut products
12noon –1pm Fun games and activities on the oval. Everyone is welcome to join in.
Following the games will be a picnic lunch. Please bring along a picnic lunch to share with your child.
Hope to see you there.
The NAIDOC Week Committee.
NAIDOC Week
Celebrations at ACPS
REMEMBER
to wear red,
yellow and
black.
PREMIERS SPELLING BEE SCHOOL FINAL
2:10pm School Auditorium
Monday 23 June 2014
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■ Address: 142-152 Faulkner St, Armidale NSW 2350
■ Phone: 02 6772 3420 ■ Fax: 02 6771 2262
■ Email: [email protected] ■ Website: www.armidale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
The Blue and White Armidale City Public School
the heart of Armidale
Quality teaching since 1861
Principal: Mr Matt Hobbs School Captains: Lucy Cook, Mangarchot Maluach
School Executive: Mrs Cherrie Paterson, Mrs Leonie MacGregor, Mrs Jodie Ridley
18 June 2014
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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—WEEK 8 Our newsletter this week sees a new format which we hope
you all like. If you have any suggestions or comments please
let the Front Office know. I would like to take this
opportunity to congratulate Mr Townsend and his wife Jane
on the safe arrival of their baby boy – Nicholas last week.
The entire Armidale City Public School community is very
happy for you.
On Tuesday this week our orchestra members went to
Drummond Memorial Public School for the Armidale
Community of Schools Orchestra rehearsal and
performance. Well done, to all students involved and thank
you, to Mrs Jones for your organisation – it was wonderful
to see so many students from Armidale City Public School
involved.
Congratulations, to our students who participated in the
local final of the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking
Competition held in the Armidale City Public School library
yesterday. Students had to present both a prepared and
impromptu speech and I was highly impressed by your
efforts. Good luck, to Jane Spencer who won and
progressed on to the next round of the competition and well
done, to Kael Streeting who was awarded Highly
Commended. Thank you, to Mrs Docksey for organising the
day at our school.
Last Friday we held our Tournament of Minds day at
Armidale City Public School. Students from Years 3–6
participated in school teams against each other on solving a
complex problem and every student who had a go at this
challenge is to be commended on their effort.
Next week we will have five students from our school
participate in the e-GATS program camp at Thalgarrah.
Olive Tutt, Juliet Knuckey, Beth Do, Roanan Kelsall and
Dougie Close were all successful with their applications to
be included in the e-GATS program and are to be
congratulated on the time and effort they put into their
very comprehensive applications. Thanks must go to Mrs
Russell for the time and effort she puts into this very
worthwhile program for all students in the New England
Region and also to Mr Phil Roberts and Dr Michelle
Bannister–Tyrrell from UNE for their time in being on the
selection panel for the program.
Student reports will go home next week. I would like to
thank teaching staff for the time and effort they have put
in to complete the Semester 1 Reports. Any parent wishing
to discuss their child’s report should contact their child’s
teacher to make an appropriate time.
This week we have been focusing on students leaving school
grounds as soon as possible after the end of the day bell.
It would also be greatly appreciated if parents who collect
their children, do so as close to our finish time of 3.10pm.
If you happen to be running late for any reason please
contact the Front Office so that we can ensure your
children are appropriately supervised until you arrive.
Please feel free to email me on the address below if you
wish to raise any points of interest. Thank you, to parents
who have already emailed me with suggestions and
questions. It has been wonderful to meet a number of new
parents this week and to have a chat about their children
and their learning. We are fortunate to have passionate
parents at Armidale City Public School, who all want to see
their child do their best and I encourage parents to also
have a chat with their child’s teacher to discuss the
progress of their child at any time.
Mr Matt Hobbs
Principal
BRONZE AWARDS
KR Jack Healey Rosie Oxley
Zac Macfarlane
1/2S Georgia Ridley Onew Kim
3/4KS Jack Foster Ned Maurer
Macuei Chadar Noah Hamilton
Tyler Grant
5/6J Beth Hall Tabitha Petersen
5/6Mac Clancy Roberts Heather Girard
Danika Hazel Anna Dennis
Keira McAndrew Eruera Heremaia
SPORTS NEWS This week Marvin Palad is away at the State Rugby League
Carnival in Kings Cliff. Amy Showell and Sophie Hay will be
away next week at State Soccer Carnival. We wish them the
best of luck and look forward to hearing North Wests’
results.
Congratulations to Amy Showell and Sophie Hay on their
selection in the North West Softball team. The girls will
travel away next term. Apologies to Heather Girard for
omitting her name from the list of Armidale Zone
Softballers.
Congratulations, to Javan Smith and Ely Sisson on gaining
selection in the North West Cross Country team. The
North West trials were held in Coolah last Friday. Javan
came 1st in the 11 years boys event and Ely 4th in the 12
years boys. They will now travel to Sydney for the State
Championships next term.
The Boys’ Rugby League team has graciously bowed out of
the PSSA knockout. They were defeated 12-10, by Ross Hill
in a hotly contested game. Congratulations, to the boys on
their excellent display of sportsmanship and team work. A
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special thank you, to Jimmy Tanner, for coaching the team.
ACPS have had mixed results in the PSSA basketball
knockouts. Both teams travelled to Tamworth for Gala days,
where they played several games of the knockout. The boys
defeated Quirindi, Timbumburri and Tamworth South. The
boys are now Regional Champions. The girls played Werris
Creek and Westdale. They played to the best of their
ability but lost both games.
It has been another busy term for our sporting teams. On
behalf of the students and staff I would like to thank all
the parents who have helped with transport, especially
Angela Girard, Bob Flint and Julie Walsh. Your commitment
is greatly appreciated.
Mrs Sue Kelly
Sports Coordinator
KINDER GREEN CLASS NEWS
It has been another very busy term for Kindergarten Green!
We have been learning all about word families and have been
learning lots of new sight words to help us with our reading
and writing. We are so excited to be writing independently
in our very own writing books.
We have been listening to many wonderful stories this term!
Our favourites have been ‘The Badly Drawn Dog’ by Emma
Dodson and ‘Boss for a Week’ by Libby Handy and Jack
Newnham. We have also been learning lots of fabulous
things in Maths, such as subtraction and fractions!
We made collage chocolate chip cookies, divided them in half
and ‘shared’ them with a friend!
We are looking forward to our NAIDOC Week celebrations
next week. There are so many fun activities for us to do as
part of these celebrations! We are also looking forward to
the school holidays. We can’t believe that we are nearly
halfway through Kindergarten!!
Mrs Tina Rubie
Class Teacher
3/4RT CLASS NEWS I have had the pleasure of teaching 3/4RT in Term 2 and we
have been very busy. We are fascinated about British
colonisation, which the children wrote emotive and
descriptive convict diaries, drew their convict and are
currently in the process of creating very informative
PowerPoint presentations as well. The children have
created their own Surrealism artworks which are
impressive.
The children participated well at the athletics carnival and
are to be congratulated on their great sportsmanship.
As a class the children organised beautiful birthday
surprises for me and I want to send a very big thank you to
everyone and the parents who helped, I am very proud of
the class for working as a team.
Miss Charmaine Perris
Class Teacher
5/6K CLASS NEWS
What’s Been Happening in 5/6K
There is a class called 5/6K
They work very hard all through the day
Learning together until their brains go pop
They can’t wait to go home each day and just flop
Thank goodness the holidays are well on the way!
E ngaged with the book Onion Tears,
N am Huong a shy, sad, lonely, young girl,
G rieving the loss of her family
L ittle Yellow Canary, best friend and so dearly missed,
I n the restaurant Chu Minh and Aunty work hard,
S amson, Miss Lily’s dog just wanted to be friends,
H appiness comes to Nam at last
By Emilie, Talita, Nikki
PE
Breathless, sweating
Running, dodging, sprinting,
Heart racing, exhausted, exhilarating
Exercise
By Lily & Louella
There were three boys named Jay, Bren and Tai
They liked to run, skip, hop and fly,
They flew to the moon and saw a camel,
And went to Mars and brought back a mammal,
So Jay could bake his mate a delicious meat pie.
By Jayden, Brendan & Teokotai
Mathematics
Mental computation
Difficult problem solving
Frustrating, complex confusing work
Mathematicians
By James, Andrew
Science
Simple Machines are used today,
They make life easy in every way,
They aren’t so bad,
And you’ll be glad,
You’re using a simple machine today.
By Lachie, Zac, Andre
China
Beautiful Culture,
Bustling, Rushing, Overcrowding
Historical Cities, Massive Wonder,
Winding, weaving, intriguing,
Magnificent, man made
Great Wall
By Harry, Cody & Singleton
Mrs Sue Kelly
Class Teacher
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